Including the first africanamerican republican and the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress using congressional chronicle on cspan. Org. The page has lots of useful information, including voting results. New congress, best access on cspan cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. I really weekend, the Democratic National committee released an interim review of the partys losses in the Midterm Elections. It showed the democrats lack a single election strategy. They need to focus on local elections. Kentucky governor steve bashiear talked about some of the points during the winter meeting. This is about an hour and a half. I hereby call the 2015 winter meeting of the Democratic National committee back into session from recess. The colors will be presented by the Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School color guard. Please rise for the presentation of the colors. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United State
Janet murguia as president ceo of National Council of la raza. Dixon slingerland is the executive director of Youth Policy Institute which serves more than 100,000 youth and young adults at 125 programs in los angeles. Randi weingarten is president of the American Federation of teachers which represents 1. 6 million educational professionals. And, finally Beth Williams is evil of roxbury technology, a company with mission to get back to its urban community by creating jobs and manufacturing earth friendly products. So we have a great group of people here today. I would like to start out the discussion with lee saunders. Why should we care about our urban areas . First let me thank c. A. P. For coordinating and sponsoring with afscme. We believe this is a discussion that is long overdue. That, in fact, theres a tragedy going on within our urban Centers Across this country. The lack of jobs the lack of good paying jobs, and we got to talk about it. Not only on the labor side but business
Sunni, become head of the country, all the minorities will be slaughtered. So long as there is zerosum game in the middle east, the sum will always be zero. And i often say in game theory theres also whats referred tos two as a variable sum game saying there can be many , winners. Whatever we do there, however much humanitarian aid we provide there, however much military support we provide in the middle east, internally, the leadership that we get behind, the United States, the leadership that we support, have to embrace, they have an obligation to embrace the Minority Community because well be sitting here five years from now, ten years from now, 20 years from now, well be having the same discussion with no progress whatsoever. Again, thank you very much for your testimony. Ill yield back. Rep. Royce go now to mr. Chris smith of new jersey. Christopher h. Smith thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you for calling this very, very important hearing and our distinguished witnesses fo
Im going to introduce them when i introduce the governor for his remarks but you should know theyve been listening and speaking with a wide variety from stakeholders from the grass roots level up and theyll continue working hard until their recommendations are finalized in june. The dean see conducted a postelection poll with 100,000 of our supporters. The association of state democratic chairs you should ray buckleys leadership conducted a survey of its membership and each of the Campaign Committees all contributed research and information to this task force and we will continue to Work Together. The work has reached into all 50 states to look at what it takes to build, run, and win political campaigns in america but the bottom line of what we food to do is educate people who are not in this room voters Donor Community leaders and activists and we need to do it through every channel possible from Voter Registration to candidate recruitment and training. As the dnc, it is our responsib
Diverse contracting practices by working with top vendors to encourage diverse hiring and contracting practices throughout our supply chain. Second continue to grow Training Programs that promote diversity like the Hope Institute training and job placement program. Third, ensure that diversity policies are followed throughout the structure of the dnc, including state Party Delegate selection and 2016 convention vendor usage and staffing. Fourth, improve diverse hiring practices, monitoring senior and general staff in identifying more diversity in our internship opportunities. Fifth, work with our state partners to grow diversity by sharing best practices and helping develop statespecific expectations and goals. The Strategies Tactics aen and tools of the party are designed to spread the democratic message. As for the message itself, its one to be proud of. Middleclass economics as president obama said yesterday works. Six years ago president obama inherited an economy that had been los